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• How the NFL is predicting pass completion using AWS SageMaker

  The NFL is increasingly turning to AWS' SageMaker machine learning toolkit to create new, more complex statistics to share with fans in real time.

• AWS gets serious about hybrid cloud with Outposts, so who is it for?

  Amazon Web Services is taking hybrid cloud more seriously through its partnership with VMware and a new product called Outposts.

• AWS offers hybrid cloud with on-prem hardware, VMware help

  AWS has taken square aim at the data centre by tying in VMware technology and rolling out two new services and on-premise hardware.

• AWS CEO talks up depth of services over rivals, targets Larry Ellison

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy has talked up the depth of its cloud products compared to its rivals, as well as going after an old favourite target in Oracle.

• ‘No change at the top’ as AWS dominates cloud

  The public cloud services market continues to be dominated by AWS at a global level with the tech giant accounting for 40 per cent of investments.

• Deloitte snaps up Kiwi Salesforce partner, CloudinIT

  Deloitte is continuing its acquisition spree across the New Zealand technology sector with plans to buy Auckland-based CloudinIT.

• Cisco aligns with AWS to help businesses run apps in the cloud

  Cisco is teaming with AWS to offer software tools that would make it easier for customers to use data centres to run their business applications.

• VMware bets on multi-cloud offerings to support global ecosystem

  VMware's CEO Pat Gelsinger shared multiple announcements in support of multi-cloud deployments as he opened VMworld Europe in Barcelona

• Tech Data bolsters platform play with CloudCheckr addition

  Tech Data has added CloudCheckr analytics and management packages to its StreamOne cloud platform in a bid to enhance partner offerings.

• Leading cloud providers increase market share as smaller players suffer

  Spending on cloud infrastructure services continues to increase at a healthy pace with investment during the third quarter up 45 per cent on 2017.

• 'We don't trust you' Oracle's Larry Ellison tells customers, spruiks Gen 2 Cloud

  Larry Ellison's opening keynote at Oracle's annual OpenWorld conference was littered with catchy soundbites as well as barbed criticisms of rival cloud providers, in particular AWS.

• Troubled Orion Health launches Amadeus Core for big data on AWS

  ​Orion Health has little choice but to innovate, having sold its profitable businesses earlier this year. And it appears to be doing just that.

• After 22 years, SAP specialist Soltius rebrands to Zag

  Soltius has unveiled a rebrand strategy designed to drive new business growth across New Zealand, under the banner of Zag.

• SAP on Azure vies with Salesforce on AWS to break data out of silos

  Six of the biggest companies in IT are setting out to eliminate the silos in which enterprises store customer data. The bad news?

• Ten years on: How Netflix completed a historic cloud migration with AWS

  In its 20-year history, Netflix has grown from a DVD rental website with 30 employees to a global streaming service with over 130 million subscribers.